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Player: Ken
Contact: mugennoken
Age: 30
Current Characters: Alice Yotsuba, Dokidoki Precure


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Character: Satsuki Kiryuin
Age: 18
Canon: Kill la Kill
Canon Point: Post-Series

Background: Kill la Kill @ Wikipedia - Kill la Kill @ Kill la Kill Wiki - Satsuki @ Kill la Kill Wiki

But that's hardly enough information, so...

Satsuki was born to Ragyo and Soichiro Kiryuin, and is heiress to the Kiruyin Conglomerate and the Revocs textile company. Her father was a genius who basically won his way into Ragyo's family with his mind and ability, while her mother... Well, in short her mother was acting on behalf of an alien organism known as Life Fibers. Clothing on this Earth exists because of the Life Fibers, and they made humans that which they are... though in the end, what we are intended to be in the end is effectively sources of power and food for the Life Fibers themselves.

Ragyo sought to pursue this, and to that end attempted to infuse her first born daughter - Satsuki - with Life Fibers, a process which failed because she was too old at one year. But that was fine! Because Ragyo had another baby on the way, and she was hooked up to machines with Life Fibers being fed into her practically straight out of the womb. But... the process seemed to not take, and Ragyo pretty much chucked the baby down a garbage chute. This was the last straw for Satsuki's father, and at five years old she was shown that which would be her "wedding dress," according to her father - a Kamui, a dress made completely of Life Fibers. She was also informed of her mother's intentions, and upon her father's mysteriously timed death soon after was thus entrusted with carrying out a mission. That mission: avenge her dead sister who never even received a name, her father, and save the world from her mother.

Of course, she was only a child then and this could not be done immediately. She was patient, building her skills and her power base throughout her school years. She recruited the strongest of allies she could find throughout those years, forming a quartet that would become known as her "Elite Four" when she entered High School at Honnouji Academy.

At Honnouji, she basically... took over the place when instated as Studen Council President. She came to rule the school with an iron fist, instituting a brutal "survival of the fittest" regime upon its students and effectively turning the surrounding city into all but a slum. The social standing of the students' families depended upon their own strengths shown at the Academy, and those strengths were hardly academic.

Satsuki was building an army. To the strong in that army, she distributed "Goku Uniforms" made partially of Life Fibers which imbued superhuman powers upon their users.

Then, a little upstart with half a "Scissor Blade" named Ryuko Matoi appeared, seeking information on the death of her father. Satsuki knew the truth of this - Matoi's father had died at the hands of Nui Harime, an agent of her mother's. However, she withholds this information. Ryuko is clearly strong, stronger still when she reappears after a defeat with a Kamui of her own named "Senketsu." So... Satsuki tests her. She holds the information regarding Dr. Matoi's death over Ryuko's head to galvanize her and push her.

Satsuki dons her own Kamui and engages in battle with Ryuko head on, bringing forth yet more power in Senketsu in the process. She poses a challenge to Ryuko that effectively sets every student in the school against her, and only when Ryuko has bested them will she meet her in battle again, and ONLY THEN will she reveals what she knows about the other girl's father.

Best them Ryuko does, until she's faced with a running gauntlet of having to fight all of Satsuki's Elite Four one right after another. Still, she continues to win, continues to grow stronger, and is one battle away from facing down Satsuki once more... until Nui Harime interferes. She reveals her killing of Ryuko's father, setting Ryuko off into a rage that unleashes a berserk form of Senketsu. Satsuki takes to the battlefield again at this prompting, and very well would have - she certainly could have - kills the rampaging monster Ryuko has become until Mako Mankanshouku - a friend of Ryuko's - is able to get through to her.

The next step in Satsuki's plan proceeds regardless of Nui's interference, which involves taking her dominance to surrounding schools and the Anti-Life Fiber guerrilla group, "Nudsit Beach." Around the same time, Nui shreds Senketsu off of Ryuko, which Satsuki is able to come into possession of... and then distributes it to all her students setting forth to do battle with the surrounding academies. While Ryuko regains those scraps and reforms Senketsu in short order, Satsuki's victory is pretty absolute. In spite of her words coming across like a despotic villain, her actual intent is both to strengthen her forces and test those of these other groups.

If they're weak enough to be defeated by Satsuki's forces? Then they have no use to her in opposing Ragyo and the Life Fibers.

This seemingly was prepared to come to a head at an organized school festival wherein Ragyo was going to unleash the power of the Original Life Fiber that fell to Earth centuries ago to basically gobble up all the attendees and start ushering in the apocalypse. Satsuki and the whole of Honnouji Academy's forces reveal their long planned treachery and Satsuki takes her mother's head... which is promptly re-attached to her body, as it the Life Fibers infused into HER body prevent her from being dispatched quite so readily.

Satsuki is beaten within an inch of her life and has Junketsu taken from her by her mother, and it's soon revealed that the younger sister Satsuki long thought was dead? That's Ryuko, and she has Life Fibers running through her body as well. SURPRISE!

Satsuki is then locked in a dungeon beneath Honnouji as Ryuko loses her way and pushes away all her allies. Satsuki, of course... manages to free herself, because she's Satsuki, and rejoins the Elite Four who have joined forces with Nudist Beach. This is just in time, as Ryuko now has been brainwashed by Ragyo and forced to don Junketsu. To counter this, Satsuki uses Senketsu and battles her sister one last time.

Satsuki doesn't win handily, however - and in fact only survives with the help of her allies both old and new. Mako and Senketsu eventually bring Ryuko back to herself, which is also just in time as they get faced with Nui once more. Luckily, Ryuko cuts her arms off! After a retreat, planning ensues, Junketsu is retrofitted into a more cooperative and powerful form, and the sisters take off to kill the hell out of their mother while everyone else battles Life Fiber forces.

In the end everyone comes together to destroy the Original Life Fiber, and then do battle with Ragyo and Nui directly. In the end, Nui fuses into Ragyo, while everyone grants the power of their uniforms to Ryuko and Senketsu. Ryuko - of course - wins, and while Senketsu dies, Satsuki and everyone both she and Ryuko had come to call friends or allies manages to save Ryuko from plummeting to her death from orbit.

With Ragyo dead, and the Life Fibers seemingly wiped from the Earth... it's happily ever after, for the most part, as Satsuki goes on to finally at long last have family she can actually care about.

Personality: Above all things, Satsuki Kiryuin is proud. Not proud of her heritage, not proud of where her name comes from. She is proud of herself. For the strength she has managed to obtain, the loyalties she has managed to forge, she has done so under her own will and strengths. Certainly, the money and influence of the Kiryuin family did not hurt matters. She very well may not have gotten as fas as she did without it. But what is important is not that she is a Kiryuin - what is important is that she is Satsuki Kiryuin, and if you question her in any way, shape, or form you are going to find out first hand just what that means.

Satsuki often presents herself as stoic and aloof, holding herself with a typically unflappable calmness. I say "presents" as if this is a facade, but... while there is definitely something hidden beneath the surface, these things are all most certainly true of her. She has forged herself into a human being that can withstand almost anything, be it the physical pain of battle or even donning her Junketsu, or the emotional pain of dealing with someone almost unspeakably vile like Ragyo for a mother. Very rarely is that particular armor cracked. Satsuki is almost always in control of most situations at hand, no matter how dire, and her own fate right until the bitter end. She scarcely flinches if you decide to attack her, typically because she already knows for a fact that in most instances, the odds of you being someone that can defeat her are exceedingly slim. She does get very loud, and very passionate as well, but... we'll get to that.

She views her actions - regardless of what anyone may think of her - as "pure." In the end, we find out this is most assuredly true. She spent her entire life building up an army, creating loyal followers, all for what could well have amounted to a suicide mission to kill her mother. For all she seemed to lord her superiority over everyone, she did it all with the intention of saving everything and staking her life and the lives of those loyal to her on the gamble. She's able to master wearing her Junketsu before Ryuko is Senketsu because of her belief in the purity of her actions - the certainty and clarity that she was doing that which only she could do, and that she needed to do. With that, she lacks any shame for her actions and that which she does. Even if she has to get mostly naked to do it, hence mastering her Kamui so early.

However, yes - that superiority. It's important because regardless of altrusitic intentions, she's pretty arrogant. It's not a facade, not in any way a mask for something else. She really is just that cocky. It's not without reason - far, far from it. Satsuki has abiilty and intelligence to spare, and somehow manages to give off a certain level of charisma that people around her flock to in spite of her usual super serious demeanor. Perhaps it's the confidence of her actions, but either way - Satsuki can come off pretty egotsitical at a glance. She can also back it up. So even if most people think that of her, they're not likely to voice it unless they're Ryuko Matoi.

She respects power and ambition in a person, in spite of appearances. If someone is strong enough to make their intentions and presence known, she is more likely than not to pay you heed. After all, this is the whole reason she sparked combat between other schools, within her own school, Nudist Beach, and Ryuko in the first place - to test them. Strengthen them if they survived. Only those strongest could stand against Ragyo, the COVERS, and the Life Fiber menace in general. If Satsuki alone could defeat them, then they'd never stand a chance against those other enemies.

In spite of her calmness, Satsuki can show quite a lot of passion in short order. Those with that aforementioned strength can spark that in her, as does confrontation and battle, or DRAMATIC SPEECHES be it to her troops or her sworn enemy. Actually, she has a thing for the dramatic in general - as if things like her entire elaborate scheme to overthrow her mother, or the giant retractable staircase at Honnouji Academy weren't tip offs to this. She can and will get very loud, and very angry given the right prompting. Generally the prompting for the anger is someone like her mother, but murderous interfering psychopaths like Nui can also fit that bill quite well. When angry, her wrath is a scary thing and hardly something you want to be caught in the path of.

Satsuki does care, however cold she may come across to most. Her entire goals are born of caring about what the hell happens to this planet, but that's an easy one. After all, she lives here too. But for people - well, there weren't many of those for awhile. Nonon was the only one for a long time, her friend since childhood - and as she grew, the other Elite Four followed in short order. She knows the loyalty of her subordinates is unquestionable, and she does care for their well being even as much as they might be witness to her harshness. Were this not the case, she wouldn't have given Sanageyama his second chance, or stopped Gamagoori from killing himself upon his loss to Ryuko.

What she lacked to care about any however, was blood. Her father had been long thought dead, as had her little sister. Of course, she would learn both were not true, at least until Nui got hold of the former. Her relationship with Ryuko changes dramatically over the course of the story, at first seeing her as a challenge, then something worth testing. Then she discovered the truth, and in spite of all their fights, began to care about her well being as well. She fought her sister with the intent of saving her sister, and in short order afterwards began to accept Ryuko as her sister. So Satsuki most definitely does care about people, and in fact probably cares about a lot of people a great deal more than you would ever think to look at her.

In the end, she is most often calm and in control of her emotions, but completely, yet rightfully convinced of her own ability and power. In spite of that calmness, she is very passionate about that which she cares about, and believe it or not - there's actually quite a lot of that.

Abilities: Beyond what can either be described as her domineering personality or charisma (it depends on who you ask), Satsuki Kiryuin is a highly skilled fighter. Primarily her skills lie in the art of swordsmanship, specifically with the katana.

Satsuki is highly conditioned. She is exceedingly strong and fast. Even without utilizing Junketsu's powers, her skill combined with the peak physical condition of her body lends her to bordering on almost superhuman just at a base level. Even if an opponent blocks her blow, it can have enough force to completely obliterate everything behind them. She can wield a sword in such a way that a swipe can create whirlwinds, or slice something before an opponent even realizes it. She can leap higher than almost any ordinary human can, and is capable of taking considerable punishment from even very powerful, superhuman enemies and still be able to recover and survive.

This is all without Junketsu, her Kamui - a parasitic, alien life form that when worn, could give her even more considerable power. However, Junketsu is... completely a non-entity here, as we're coming from post series, and he has long since been destroyed after his power was consumed by Senketsu, and then Senketsu died. So we won't talk about him.

Nor will we talk about her personal weapon, the Secret Sword Bakuzan. It too is gone, and she has laid down her weapons having spent her entire lifetime fighting.

Other: Nada.


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